Beauty, the feeling Brielmann, Aenne A.; Nuzzo, Angelica; Pelli, Denis G.
Acta psychologica,
09/2021, Letnik:
219
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Many philosophers and psychologists have made claims about what is felt in an experience of beauty. Here, we test how well these claims match the feelings that people report while looking at an ...image, or listening to music, or recalling a personal experience of beauty. We conducted ten experiments (total n = 851) spanning three nations (US, UK, and India). Across nations and modalities, top-rated beauty experiences are strongly characterized by six dimensions: intense pleasure, an impression of universality, the wish to continue the experience, exceeding expectation, perceived harmony in variety, and meaningfulness. Other frequently proposed beauty characteristics — like surprise, desire to understand, and mind wandering — are uncorrelated with feeling beauty. A typical remembered beautiful experience was active and social like a family holiday — hardly ever mentioning beauty — and only rarely mentioned art, unlike the academic emphasis, in aesthetics, on solitary viewing of art. Our survey aligns well with Kant and the psychological theories that emphasize pleasure, and reject theories that emphasize information seeking.
•Over 850 people report their feelings while experiencing or remembering beauty.•Beauty experiences are intensely pleasurable, subjectively universal, and meaningful.•Beauty expresses harmony in variety, exceeds expectation, and begs continuation.•Beauty memories are active and social.•Our findings are the first comprehensive, empirical description of beauty.
System Nuzzo, Angelica
2015, 2003, 201507, 2003-01-01, Letnik:
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Prinzipiell besitzt der Systembegriff einerseits eine ontologische und andererseits eine methodologisch-erkenntnistheoretische Funktion. So drückt sich in ihm die ontologische Form spezifischer ...Klassen von lebendigen Dingen - nämlich lebendigen Organismen - aus. Andererseits ist die Idee des Systems der Schlussstein einer Methode, die zur Erkenntnis der Wirklichkeit eingesetzt wird. Um Inhalt und Form des dialektischen Systembegriffs zu fassen, werden philosophiegeschichtliche Rückgriffe besonders auf Kants Bemühungen gemacht. Mit Hegel kommt dem Systembegriff eine konstitutive Funktion in der methodologischen Auffassung und ontologischen Entwicklung der Realität zu. Dialektisch-spekulative Vernunft ist wesentlich System. Dieser Systembegriff bildet einen Ansatz für eine Idee der Rationalität, in der die »Macht der Vernunft« Formen von »Dekonstruktion« gegenübertritt.
Angelica Nuzzo offers a comprehensive reconstruction of Kant's theory of
sensibility in his three Critiques. By introducing the notion of transcendental
embodiment, Nuzzo proposes a new understanding ...of Kant's views on science, nature,
morality, and art. She shows that the issue of human embodiment is coherently
addressed and key to comprehending vexing issues in Kant's work as a whole. In this
penetrating book, Nuzzo enters new terrain and takes on questions Kant struggled
with: How does a body that feels pleasure and pain, desire, anger, and fear
understand and experience reason and strive toward knowledge? What grounds the
body's experience of art and beauty? What kind of feeling is the feeling of being
alive? As she comes to grips with answers, Nuzzo goes beyond Kant to revise our view
of embodiment and the essential conditions that make human experience
possible.
This essay addresses the general systematic question underlying any project of 'formalization' of Hegel's dialectic-speculative logic, namely, the question concerning the peculiar concept of logical ...'form' and the connected type of 'formalism' at stake in a logic that is, programmatically and innovatively within the historical tradition, a 'dialectic-speculative' logic.
Foregrounding Hegel's political cosmology allows us to set his dialectic-speculative theory of the political world in contrast both to ideal theories and to historicist-positivist theories. Against ...these positions, Hegel upholds his "realism of the idea": the claim that a rational world is neither a pre-given whole nor an unattainable ideal, but the dynamic, immanent orientation of reason that continually constructs and animates the world. Hegel's view of the world thus provides him with a way of reconceiving the relationship between philosophy and actuality. In this view, philosophy is not immune from, or external to, the world it theorizes, but is produced and checked by that world, which it, in turn, produces.
This essay examines the connection between sensibility and voice in a prominent but generally overlooked historical connection, namely, in the relation between Kant and Herder. On this basis, it ...draws consequences for our philosophical thinking of the role that the voice plays in articulating philosophical thinking.
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